How many of you start the day with over 300 new emails in your inbox and know more will follow? How many find this method of communication productive? If you do, I am not one of you – I’d much rather be getting my hands dirty tackling the issues. For the bulk of those [...]
Everywhere you look, signs are bombarding you with information that you must interpret, determine if it applies to you. Does it apply now, or in the future? Are you required to act, or is the transfer of knowledge all that is required? I could draw a process map, because sometimes life gets complicated.
Behaviors need [...]
Many managers I’ve worked with reside at either end of the spectrum: They are either hands-off or the micromanager. The best managers I know understand that they cannot be locked into a single position, and rather move up and down the scale as the situation requires. They know for example, that when a team is [...]
Key note speech by Jack Shaw, President of Intelligent Healthcare Technologies on accelerating innovation. Thoughtful and thought provoking speech, but be prepared, its over an hour.
The Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement are the trifecta of a company’s financial reports and should be reviewed frequently with key employees who impact the results. Everyone should be familiar with these reports and should not rely on the CFO to interpret. I know it seems like yet more reports to pile [...]
A recent post by Seth Godin complaining (very insightfully) about dashboards got me thinking because so much of what I do involves helping clients understand their performance, and lot of times that means developing dashboards. A typical scenario is that they want this tool to be the Mazerati of tracking, so they want every conceivable [...]
I grew up in the Midwest, tornado country and we always had a plan, at school we trained by getting in the hall way, moving away from windows and making ourselves as small as possible. At home we knew where the candles, and emergency supplies were kept and the safest room in the house. Living [...]
Common sense ideas from Harvard Business School’s Steve De Maio. Pleasing clients is a no-brainer in any economy, and now it is more important than ever as future work hinges upon client satisfaction. The following 4 tips will help with lifelong clients:
Beat the Deadline: Get work done ahead of time gives the client flexibility and [...]
Wire: BLOOMBERG News (BN) Date: 2009-04-23 04:01:00
Harvard’s Peso Doctor Vindicated as Chile Currency Evades Slump
By Sebastian Boyd
April 23 (Bloomberg) — Thousands of government workers marched on downtown Santiago last November, burning an effigy of Chilean Finance Minister Andres Velasco and calling him “disgusting” as a strike for higher wages paralyzed public services. Five months later, polls show that Velasco [...]
A charter is a wonderful tool that keeps all the stakeholders in agreement regarding the project. Project managers are well versed with a project charter because it is a foundation piece that helps build consensus as the project kicks off and teams are developing.
Other names for project charter include “project definition” or “terms of reference”. [...]
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